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Brazil's official news agency says a key witness in a case related to the 2005 death of American nun and Amazon defender Dorothy Stang is in critical condition after being shot just hours after being summoned to testify. Agencia Brasil...

A 35-year-old Italian citizen died at an airport in northeastern Brazil of a cocaine overdose after one of the 20 capsules containing cocaine that were in his stomach ruptured, media reported Thursday.

Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams will visit Government House Friday, for the second time in less than two months, to shuffle his cabinet. Stories that coyotes are walking town streets have left some people in western Newfoundland nervous. Fears...

Brazil — Brazilians may be seeing a whole lot more of the student whose short pink dress got her booted from college: She's agreed to march in the nation's famously flesh-baring Carnival parades. Geisy Arruda, who became an instant celebrity...

The academy's president, Cicero Sandroni, praises the quality of Japanese anime and manga creations, saying they have developed creativity among young people.      A 13-year-old junior high school student said, ''Moves of main characters as well as colors and stories (of...

Brazil — Rio de Janeiro's posh beach neighborhoods lost power for hours in sweltering summer weather Tuesday, prompting restaurants to toss out spoiled food and business owners to send their employees home. The outage came two weeks after a massive...

The signing of several economic agreements between Iran and Brazil may hurt Brazil but should not be viewed as anti-American, observers say. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was in Brazil Monday as part of his global effort to shore up ties...

Ecuadorean soldiers use rubber bullets and tear gas on citizens protesting a Canadian-owned mine in 2006. The hills that surround what Vancouver-based Corriente Resources calls "one of the few new sizable copper projects in the world" are riddled with land...

Dr. Sax will make the case for all-boys school within the Toronto District School Board, a pot-stirring idea championed by the board's new director of education, Chris Spence, that aims to shrink the achievement gap between boys and girls. In...

Thinley delivered the keynote address at the opening of the Fifth International Conference on GNH at Iguacu, Brazil, on November 20. Addressing an audience of about a thousand participants including senior officials and prominent academicians, the Prime Minister explained the...